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“I do believe Hillary has shown herself to be the exemplary candidate in terms of the person who’s best equipped to do this,” Davis said when making the endorsement.

Davis, a former Fort Worth councilwoman and state senator who gained national attention for a 2013 filibuster against an abortion bill, unsuccessfully ran for governor in 2014 against Republican Greg Abbott.

After losing by more than 20 percentage points, or nearly 1 million votes, she stayed out of the limelight for awhile.

In recent months she has been traveling and giving public speeches, and has talked about an initiative to promote gender equality that she hopes to unveil this year. She has also said she’s working on a TV show pilot based loosely on her life.